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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Mizrahi develop fragrances, undergarments or other successful accessories, from which designers usually reap the bulk of their profits. Most devastating was the failure of his lower-priced bridge line nine months ago, which, though youthful and vibrant, never caught on. As fashion industry analyst Mark Mankoff, a partner at Ernst & Young, puts it, "Mizrahi just didn't reach enough people. He was not broadly accepted as a brand and an image and a life-style...
...Chaplain Mark Weiler is holding a seashell filled with purified water. Normally it's the parents who ask for him, when they want their baby baptized and don't think they can afford to wait. But this baby was abandoned weeks ago, and is due to go into surgery in an hour; it was the nurses who called and put aside their work to gather around the incubator. Weiler can't pick up this child, lying so still, like a broken marionette, so much tape holding so many tubes. He dips his finger in the water and touches the baby...
...Brotherhood Crusade, a black activist group. Last week he led pickets outside the Paramount studios, where Pfeiffer is shot. "They wouldn't do anything comedic about the Jewish Holocaust, and rightfully so," said Bakewell. The Los Angeles city council unanimously passed a motion introduced by a black member, Mark Ridley-Thomas, requiring a community screening of the pilot and directing the city's human relation commission to report back within 10 days on whether the show is appropriate for broadcast...
...Home runs hit by Mark McGwire...
Carl Morris, statistics professor, Harvard: Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak and Mark McGwire's record of one homer per 7.27 at bats will last well into the next century. The best home-run hitters, playing in Colorado, might hit more than 70. But McGwire hit his 70 in just 509 at bats, with 33% more homers per at bat than Sammy Sosa and 17% more than Ruth's previous major league record...